By Matt de Nesnera - email SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- The City of Santa Cruz is facing a "critically dry" water year, and with no rain in sight, water officials said if conditions remain the same there will likely be voluntary or mandatory water ...
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By Rainbow Light Nutritional Systems SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Feb. 22, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Rainbow Light extends its commitment to environmental stewardship into ocean conservation through a partnership with Plant A Fish®.
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From their private gardens to house-filtered sparkling water, professional kitchens get big love for menus going small-batch and organic.
SANTA CRUZ — Students cluster with friends as they tap away on their laptops, sipping lattes or spoon a scoop of heaven from Penny Ice Creamery. This is not a scene from a downtown coffee shop. This is the UC Santa Cruz library, seemingly the coolest ...
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Rainbow Light extends its commitment to environmental stewardship into ocean conservation through a partnership with Plant A Fish®. Globally, sea turtles are highly endangered with populations ...
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Coffee connoisseurs from seven states will gather in Santa Cruz next month for the 2012 Southwest Regional Barista Competition, set for March 9-11 at the ...
The district boundaries were redrawn last year by the Citizens Redistricting Commission. It now includes Santa Cruz County, portions of Monterey and Santa ...
More and more purveyors, such as Whole Foods Market, feature sustainable and environmentally responsible varieties supported by the Blue Ocean Institute and the Monterey Bay Aquarium. For those of us who give up meat for Lent, or avoid it on Ash ...
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(Shale oil is actual crude oil produced from tight shale formations like the Bakken. .... California's Monterey Shale will not be exploited any time soon.
... runoff from agricultural operations will be considered by the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board at a meeting set for March 14 and 15.
By JM BROWN - Santa Cruz Sentinel City of Santa Cruz Desalination Program Manager Heidi Luckenbach speaks to a meeting of Santa Cruz Neighbors at the Police Department's Community Room Tuesday night. SANTA CRUZ - Concerns about a proposed desalination ...
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By Karen Haram The Monterey, 1127 S. St. Mary's St., is No. 6 on Texas Monthly's Where to Eat Now 2012 list, which focuses on what food writer Pat Sharpe considers the 10 best new Texas restaurants. “Watch for this word: Southtown,” she writes in the ...
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I informed him that Idaho Power has installed wired smart meters for all its ... a heartening endorsement for the protection of Monterey County residents.
By KIMBERLY WHITE -- Santa Cruz Sentinel APTOS - Most people view community ... Cabrillo's dean of instruction, career education and economic development.
By JASON HOPPIN - Santa Cruz Sentinel SANTA CRUZ - A deadline to collect ... the effort had largely dropped from the radar as PG&E SmartMeter opponents, ...
s SmartMeters installed in their homes. Since the California Public ... Of that group, 450 live in Marin, compared with 706 who live in Santa Cruz.
by Joshua Hart The focus of those fighting the illegal installation of smart meters in Santa Cruz County has by necessity remained on helping people ...
It's a hotly contested debate in Monterey County, as methyl iodide is used to fumigate strawberry crops, which is a $751 million industry in the county. It had been approved by the EPA as a replacement for pesticide methyl bromide in 2007 with ...
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The white barn at Hidden Villa dates back to the 1880s, when the farm was a ... the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains--to learn an agricultural ...
It is one of four electric vehicle charging stations in the three-county air ... The others are in Salinas and Carmel, with another being activated soon in ...
21, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- BuildingWise Founder, Barry Giles and CEO, Bruce Crawford have opened a second California location for their growing ...
By Paul Rogers Having lived in Santa Cruz in the 90's, I find this shark predation theory a little unu... (February 21, 2012, by ImagineThat) MORE No surprise here. I've heard they taste like chicken. (February 21, 2012, by Travelin Man) MORE SAN JOSE, ...
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Monterey County, one of the largest agricultural counties in California, joins Santa Cruz County in mounting pressure to re-examine the controversial ...
When Laura Henson, a 2008 graduate of Washington and Lee, began graduate studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIA) in Monterey, Calif., she found herself in a challenging quantitative-modeling course required for all incoming ...
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Conner Jay/The Salinas Californian. Legislation introduced into Congress this week threatens to scuttle a deal to end a quarter-century ban on sea otters in Southern California waters. Rep. Elton Gallegly, R-Simi Valley, says HR 4043, the Military ...
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Based on recent internal studies of historic well data a zone within the overlying Monterey Shale, the main regional unconventional oil reservoir in the ...
But SmartMeter rejections? PG&E announced last week that Santa Cruz County leads the state in residents willing to pay for analog power meters rather than ...
By KEVIN HOWE Cab driver John Petty of Marina talks about the challenges high gas prices while filling up his cab at the Valero station on Lighthouse Avenue in Monterey. Spring is coming, the wildflowers are blooming, and the price of gas at the pump ...
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By Donna Jones The remnants of a cabbage crop harvested last weekend are chopped up along Lakeview Road at Lakeside Organic Gardens on Monday. SANTA CRUZ ...
On Monday, Santiago was gassing up for the return trip at the Valero station at Lighthouse and Prescott avenues at $3.87 a gallon, one of the lower-cost stations on the Monterey Peninsula according to gasbuddy.com. The family had stayed overnight, ...
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In addition, the Fort Ord Reuse Authority has removed the city as its agent in the management of Preston Park. In three years they have achieved nothing but ...
By DONNA JONES - Santa Cruz Sentinel Lakeside Organic Gardens' Dick Peixoto has been farming organically since 1996. He tells his story in a new book from ...
Santa Cruz, Marin and San Francisco counties accounted for the most ... Many of her fellow SmartMeter opponents are declining to opt out because of the cost ...
The Monterey Bay Aquarium took him in and nursed him, turning him over to Joy, the institution's go-to otter for surrogating wee pups in need (Pup 572 is Joy's 16th otter). He's doing well, so 572 has just joined the Sea Otter Exhibit at the aquarium ...
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The Environmental Defense Fund "also assisted in developing the scope of work and methodology for the study," according to a university press release. The $308000 project studied three areas: the Barnett Shale in North Texas; the Marcellus Shale in New ...
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A rooster shakes his head at a chicken farm in Palomino Valley. ... organic farm production at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
MONTEREY, Calif., Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Scientists say the number of sea otters found dead along the California coast due to shark bites has risen sharply in recent years. Last year, 70 sea otters washed ashore between San Mateo County and Santa Barbara ...
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by Bradley Stuart ( bradley [at] riseup.net ) On February 18th, dozens of trained signature gathering volunteers held a launch event for the "California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act" at the Santa Cruz Live Oak Green Grange.
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By Donna Jones Santa Cruz Sentinel Legislation introduced into Congress this week threatens to scuttle a deal to end a quarter-century exclusion of sea otters from Southern California waters. Rep. Elton Gallegly, R-Simi Valley, says HR 4043, ...
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The staff is recommending denial of oil drilling and production ... from methods used by the oil industry to extract oil from thick Monterey shale tar.
The recognition was for Campbell's dedicated leadership in economic development and contribution of substantial resources to chambers of commerce throughout the Monterey county region. “I am truly honored and touched by this award,” said Campbell.
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Promoting organic farming, HFP is a community farm in Raila village, ... and sustainable food systems at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
He was among the nearly 150 people who combed the beach for trash as part of Save Our Shores monthly beach cleanup. The cleanups take place on the third Saturday of every month from 10 am to noon in Santa Cruz County. "I'm a surfer, and I love the ...
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By JM BROWN -- Santa Cruz Sentinel McHenry Library's Global Village Cafe is the gathering spot for UC Santa Cruz students throughout the day. SANTA CRUZ - Students clustered with friends as they tap away on their laptops, sipping lattes or spoon a ...
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After relieving Bichekas of his duties in November, the Santa Cruz ... The Coolidge Economic Development Board heard a presentation on the project Jan.
If Richards is removed, the current vice president, Michael Sutton, a biologist who works for the Monterey Bay Aquarium, would become president. In 2010, his former business partner was indicted, along with three other men, on charges of bribery, ...
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By DONNA JONES - Santa Cruz Sentinel A female otter floats on her back with her pup resting on her belly in Elkhorn Slough. A recent study shows otters are on the decline along the Central Coast. WATSONVILLE - Legislation introduced into Congress this ...
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While exploring the world under water, Garcia discovered the value and fragility of coral reefs, which are complex living structures that form the base of the tropical ocean ecosystem and are sensitive to even minute environmental changes in water ...
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Activated in May 2010, the $14 million dam is part of the $33 million Salinas Valley Water Project, which included changes to the Lake Nacimiento Dam ...
The council voted 5-0 to approve contracts with EMC Planning Group and RBF Consulting to do project management work and to prepare an environmental impact report for the project proposed for hundreds of acres of Fort Ord land within both Seaside and ...
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